Origami Tessellations

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• Mélisande’s origami gallery
  Mélisande’s origami site, featuring a large amount of origami tessellations. Many photos, and several diagrams / crease patterns / illustrated folding sequences. some wonderful inventive origami work!
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  The flickr photostream of origami artist Mélisande. Wonderful work, especially the origami tessellations!
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origami joel

Originally uploaded by jenel.

came across this post on flickr with the tag “origami” (yes, I see them all- I’m addicted, what can I say?)

I thought to myself, “wow, it looks like he’s folding a tessellation”…

if you look at the picture in full size, you’ll see he’s folding a Fujimoto (tower?) tessellation- you know, that amazingly popular one that everyone seems to fold.

the amazing bit is the fact that his pleats are TINY. it’s crazy. I would love to talk to this guy about his work! and learn some of his techniques, while I’m at it.

Origami Joel, if you come across this post, please get in touch with me- I’d love to get some pointers from you!

UPDATE: see new article with photos about Joel here!

Roberto Gretter is an Italian origami folder with some amazing skill, as well as several common interests. His website features many original designs, including quite a few tessellations and geometric patterns.

Since I really have a fondness for geometric tessellated shapes, here’s several of his bowls- which he has also diagrammed, available for download at his site!

Also, here’s a link to one of my favorite designs of his- which he just calls “hexagonal tessellation“.

Origami on the Go 2.0

I found this while digging around on the net- it’s called Origami on the Go 2.0, and is theoretically some kind of freeware app for the Palm handheld. I don’t have a Palm, being more chained to the MS product line for work reasons, so I can’t test this- perhaps there is an intrepid reader out there who can download this (purportedly free) application and give it a test run? I’d be interested to hear from you about it, if you do.

you can get it from here:

Origami on the Go, 2.0

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Liz Plummer over at Dreaming Spirals has this wonderful origami-inspired book you can make, previously mentioned here.

She has this to say:

By the way, if anyone hasn’t got time to make the books but would like to buy one, I’m selling them for £15 each plus postage, (or $30 US). Email me if you are interested.

So if you want one of this beautiful little books, and you don’t want to take the time to make it yourself, you can buy one!